György Hölvényi, State Secretary for Church and Minority Affairs of the Ministry of Human Resources, welcomed the delegation of the European Jewish Parliament. The visit was part of a comprehensive Central and Eastern European tour.
As of the second half of 2010 several employment statistics signal favourable trends, as in case of young adults, those above the age of 50 and those working part-time the number of employed increased by the third quarter of 2012. In addition, employment trends of women have also turned positive in this period. Yet another favourable development has been that the overall payroll numbers increased in most sectors of the national economy, and within the manufacturing industry – with the exception of the manufacturing of computers, electronic and optical products – statistics indicate improvement in each significant sub sector.
The Deputy State Secretary has already held negotiations with the local leaders of Hungarian secular and religious communities.
Gen. Dr. Tibor Benkő, the Chief of the Defence Staff is participating in the Chiefs of Defence meeting of the North Atlantic Alliance. The two-day event is taking place at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels on January 16 and 17.
We shall commemorate the Deportation of Germans in Hungary on Saturday, 19 January.
India will host Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on a state visit in October, the Hungarian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
The Government is setting up a workgroup to negotiate with the authorities in Switzerland in order to recover unpaid taxes, Minister of State heading the Prime Minister's Office János Lázár said on Wednesday at a press conference held together with Government Spokesperson András Giró-Szász. According to an analysis prepared by the Ministry of National Economy, the amount of Hungarian income stored in offshore accounts is around HUF 1 trillion, but may even reach HUF 2 trillion (EUR 6.7bn).
As a positive development, the overall number of new orders at manufacturing industry enterprises increased impressively, by 45.7 percent. However, seasonally and workday-adjusted industrial production declined by 0.1 percent in November 2012 compared to the previous month. In comparison to November 2011 both unadjusted and workday-adjusted statistics signal that industrial output decreased by 6.9 percent which figure was also due to a high basis reading. Decrease, however, was even larger in Italy (7.6 percent) and Spain (7.2 percent), and among our regional peers the Czech Republic registered a similar volume decline of 6.2 percent.
We can be proud of the quality of the residential park in the neighbourhood of Ócsa that was built for those who found themselves in difficulties as a result of foreign currency loans – said Miklós Soltész, State Secretary of the Ministry of Human Resources, at the press conference held by the construction site.
On Tuesday last week Nouriel Roubini, one of the world’s most influential financial analysts sent to clients the following investment recommendation in his regular newsletter: “Until Hungary signs a new deal with the IMF we recommend to short the forint." Thus he signalled that investors should bet on a weakening forint.